All these years I've been doing it wrong (ooh err)

SexyGreyFox said:
Yesterday I started moaning at the wife while I was transferring people's gigs to a master gig list on Facebook and their misuse of exclamation marks.
So I explained to her what they are doing and she couldn't see anything wrong so I thought she was also mad.
She asked me to explain what I thought an exclamation mark meant and I said it means 'You're not sure'
eg is it black or dark blue!
Now even though I'm dyslexic and will read this 15 times before I hit post I'm not too bad with grammar once I've checked it multiple times.
She told me to look it up on Google and I was wrong, 65 years I've been wrong :(
I know I've used it 100s of times on here when I've not been sure so it's going to be hard to not do it from now on.

Anyway, anything you've found out much later in life that you had got completely wrong for years/decades?
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I think what you need in life is an interrobang.

Honestly, it's quite innocent to google it. I promise.
 
I blame my Dad (a huge wind-up merchant/prankster) for this one because, as a child about 6-7-ish, he told me that the moon was lit up at night from all the street lights on Earth reflecting off it, and I never really thought about that as an idea that I needed to question ever since as the brightness of the moon rarely comes up in conversation.

Then, when I was 40-ish (yes, that old), there was a full moon during a night-shift with about 10 other people all within earshot (in Saudi where there's very little light pollution), when someone said "the Moons bright tonight" and I said out loud "Hmmm, must be more street lights on than normal" and suddenly realised as I was saying it out-loud that it sounded as idiotic as it was and I instantly realised how dumb I was as everyone else fell about laughing at me.

Sadly, if I hadn't said it out loud in front of people, I really do think that I'd very probably have still thought it was true, my poor lost innocence :(
 
ianh said:
I blame my Dad (a huge wind-up merchant/prankster) for this one because, as a child about 6-7-ish, he told me that the moon was lit up at night from all the street lights on Earth reflecting off it, and I never really thought about that as an idea that I needed to question ever since as the brightness of the moon rarely comes up in conversation.

Then, when I was 40-ish (yes, that old), there was a full moon during a night-shift with about 10 other people all within earshot (in Saudi where there's very little light pollution), when someone said "the Moons bright tonight" and I said out loud "Hmmm, must be more street lights on than normal" and suddenly realised as I was saying it out-loud that it sounded as idiotic as it was and I instantly realised how dumb I was as everyone else fell about laughing at me.

Sadly, if I hadn't said it out loud in front of people, I really do think that I'd very probably have still thought it was true, my poor lost innocence :(
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Some years back a female relative (by marriage, not blood) left the rest of us speechless at a family event. The light was fading and she casually made the observation that the night clouds were drawing in. It then became clear that this wasn't some sort of joke or euphemism, she really believed that it got dark every night because black "night clouds" covered up the sun and then it got light went they away again in the morning.
 
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